Letters
Letter: Is income tax meant to cover unaccounted for federal funds?
The House Finance Committee has advanced Senate Bill 6346, a 9.9 percent tax on incomes over $1 million.…
Opinion
Comment: Destruction is not a political path to peace
Military campaigns didn’t produce stable regimes in Iraq or Libya. The result may be similar in Iran.
In Our View
Editorial: Protect state climate act’s funds for intended uses
The CCA fund’s shouldn’t go toward other needs. A better accounting of its spending is necessary
Opinion
Comment: Proposed tax would hinder construction businesses
The ‘millionaires tax’ would hit the working capital that construction firms need to build communities.
Opinion
Comment: Budget cuts threaten access, upkeep of state rec areas
A loss of funding would cut employees and force closures of DNR sites that state residents enjoy.
Opinion
Comment: State can’t ignore need after federal cuts to health care
State lawmakers must adjust the budget to make up for federal losses to Medicaid and long-term care.
Opinion
Forum: Protect kids from fentanyl, other dangerous drugs at home
Legislation to add fentanyl to an endangerment law died in the House. But Everett has stepped up.
Opinion
Forum: Littering seems to be on rise; let’s become ‘Litter Gitters’
Fed up with trash that others strew? Grab a bag and join our ‘small acts of resistance’ movement.
Columnists
Schwab: Why are we bombing Iran? Take your pick of explanations.
Justifying his actions neither to Congress nor the American people, a case is made for the midterms.
Columnists
Goldberg: Idea that Trump was antiwar was always delusional
Trump’s foreign policy is less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a belligerent mutation of it.
Letters
Letter: HeraldNet website changes weren’t for the better
Well, The Herald has made a major change the look of its website, HeraldNet.com. And like many of…
Letters
Letter: Thanks for engagine thoughts on Herald Opinion page
After reading Sid Schwab’s list of our President’s “achievements” (“Schwab: Sure, the SOTU address was a mess, but…
Opinion
Comment: Charter schools are public schools; fund them as such
A proposal to take back $1,500 per charter school student to balance the state’s budget is unfair.
Letters
Letter: Court ruling on salmon points to breach of least-productive dams
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon in a recent ruling identified a central issue for Northwest salmon recovery…
Letters
Letter: Don’t expose infants or toddlers used in filming to long-term trauma
When an Oscar nominee wins and accepts the award at the podium, he/she typically thanks the various other…
Letters
Letter: What Republicans were applauding during State of the Union
Watching the response of many of the Republican members of Congress to some of the president’s comments during…